Fortunat Kolano

Fortunat Kolano (12 March 1825-25 February 1853) was a Polish aristocrat and the leader of the failed 1853 Kielce uprising.

Biography
Fortunat Kolano was born on 12 March 1825 in Nowa Slupia, Congress Poland, Russian Empire to a family of Polish szlachta nobility. Kolano served in the Imperial Russian Army as an artilleryman from 1841 to 1846, and he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. Kolano was booted from the army for taking part in a Polish officer corps conspiracy against the government, but his parents ensured that he was not arrested. Kolano became a Polish nationalist in the following years, and Kolano decided to lead an uprising of the starving Poles of Kielce against the Russian government in 1853. Kolano sold his estate and used the proceeds to give bread to the poor, and he donned his old Russian uniform to command the uprising. Kolano and the revolters were assaulted by Russian government troops sent to put the uprising down, and Kolano was captured. On 25 February 1853, he was executed by firing squad in Warsaw.